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  • adjective Not singed.

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Examples

  • While the hellfires tore through most of Wall Street in 2008, Travelers emerged unsinged, netting $2.9 billion on $24.5 billion in revenue.

    Wall Street's Honest Man Nathan Vardi 2011

  • While the hellfires tore through most of Wall Street in 2008, Travelers emerged unsinged, netting $2.9 billion on $24.5 billion in revenue.

    Wall Street's Honest Man Nathan Vardi 2011

  • That looks like a tough chimney to climb down, but miraculously, Santa is safely onboard, unsinged and working his way through the train.

    CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2009 2009

  • What does it matter when our historical legacy can still be plucked unsinged from the flames of self-righteous enmity?

    Open Caucus: Eye on Indiana - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Come here to safety where your fur shall remain unsinged.

    FIRE: A POETICS 2008

  • Come here to safety where your fur shall remain unsinged.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • I eased myself back into bed " on Krystal's side " the unburned, unsinged side.

    The Death of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • The end of the envelope, unsinged and unopened now, pushed the brass flap inward, the hand holding it turned at the wrist, a diamond ring gleaming.

    Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995

  • Peter Donas was too tied up with her childhood fantasies and too much of a flesh-and-blood man for Jenny to have thought she might brush his world and come out unsinged.

    From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982

  • Schooled in the Bible and politics, Jimmy Carter correctly sensed that no angel could possibly deliver him unsinged from the Reunion Arena in Dallas.

    Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981

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